Thousand-year floods pummeled Yellowstone
Thousand-year floods shut down Yellowstone National Park this June after intense rainfall caused flooding and mudslides. The extreme conditions severely damaged roads and swept away a bridge. Some roads were completely covered in debris from the floodwaters and landslides. Videos showed an entire house in Montana collapsing and being washed away by the Yellowstone River, which flows through the park.
Conditions during that time were so dangerous that park workers had to evacuate visitors and shut down the park, NPR reported. This was the first time that all of the park’s entrances had to close since 1988, according to the Guardian.
